Daisy wheel printers were popular in the late 1970s and 1980s. They were based on an impact printing technology, similar to ball-head typewriters, with a sloping disk that was used to press a raised plastic or metal character into the paper.
Daisy wheel printers allowed for multiple fonts within a single document. The character pattern was arranged around the edge of the wheel, with 96 glyphs in total.
Dot-matrix printers, meanwhile, relied on a single matrix of metal pins. This resulted in an imprecise print of text characters. However, these devices could also print graphics, as well as a wide character set.
Daisy wheel printers were not as popular as dot-matrix printers. Instead, they were cheaper. In addition, they were slow and noisy.
However, daisy wheel printers produced high-quality, letter-quality output. Some models produced up to 75 characters per second.
Daisy wheel printers were developed by many companies, including GE, Diablo, Qume, and Xerox. By 1980, these machines were the dominant high-end output technologies.
As laser printers became affordable, Daisy wheel systems were gradually phased out. Most daisy wheel printers supported coarse graphics mode.
Daisy wheel printers also required frequent wheel changes to print different fonts. In the early 1980s, they cost about $3,000.
Daisy wheel printers are now obsolete. Today, they are found in only a few electronic typewriters. Fortunately, they have been replaced by laser printers. Laser printers have a lower noise level and produce a less abrasive print.
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